Books By Newest

Affective Economies of Migration offers a nuanced analysis of how affective relationships—romantic love, friendship, trust, kinship, and more—were converted into forms of economic capital. Estimates suggest that around five percent of Peruvians have Chinese ancestry as a result of transpacific migration. Challenging conventional historical and literary frameworks, Lorena ...

As human societies grapple with a future marked by ecological disaster, climate change is often conceived as a technological, economic, or political problem with a corresponding solution. In this first-of-its-kind book, Muhammad Faruque reframes the crisis as not simply a problem to be solved but rather a profound crisis of ...

The poems in Voyage to the Center, by the contemporary Catalan poet Gemma Gorga and lucidly translated by the American poet Sharon Dolin, are extreme acts of compression, which explore the ways a poem may use very few words to convey meaning. Gorga understands both the power and the limits ...

Gravity Archives, Revised and Expanded for North American Readers, is a Remarkable Contemplation of Departure and Return Andrew Motion’s new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present. In the opening elegies for friends and former versions of the self, and in the ...

Sitting at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers where they join to flow into the Ohio, the city of Pittsburgh has been shaped by its material environment—the rocky, grimy, watery base on which it stands. It has also been shaped by industrial activity, as the city has ...

Disciplinary Connections uncovers the intertwined origins of two fields that shaped nineteenth-century thought: history and physics. Offering the first combined perspective on their development, Sjang ten Hagen reveals a time when these disciplines were seen as parallel modes of knowledge rather than as opposites within the “sciences” and “humanities.” Focusing ...

Earth-Shattering News and Other Catastrophes Considered While Listening to the Genius of Love is a book with a soundtrack/playlist. The poems use a range of popular songs and music as a starting point for lyrical daydreams, serious narratives, personal and political reflections, as well as pop culture mashups that ...

In the mid-twentieth century, popular predictions offered bold visions of what life would be like in the future. In the 1930s and 1940s, scientists and engineers predicted an imminent synthetic age unlimited by the bounds of organic materials and natural resources. After World War II, public intellectuals warned of a ...

Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers. The authors in this collection engage poetry, fiction, experimental literature, playwriting, and literary criticism. They provide historical and theoretical interventions and practical advice for teachers and ...

Minnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon, ...

“Sometimes it’s hard to know a miracle / is a miracle.” Book of Miracles, Kelle Groom’s fifth poetry collection seeks commonplace or hidden miracles. These poems are an exploration of mystery and longing. The speaker’s experience of alcoholism and recovery propels a desire for transformation. The natural world ...

Revolutionary technologies—from nuclear weapons to biotechnology and artificial intelligence—have transformed not only economies but also the foundations of global politics. This book offers the first systematic and comparative study of how such disruptive innovations generate international conflict and cooperation. Drawing on over two decades of research and teaching ...

The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s new collection explore how different forms of desire are thwarted by proximity to violence and catastrophe, and how they are intensified and enhanced by liminality and mortality. Can love reclaim the territory consumed by war? What does it mean to share in the suffering ...

One of the longest rivers in the world, the Nile played a critical role in the development of ancient Egypt. For millennia, much of the region’s food has been cultivated in the Nile delta region, with its rich, nutrient-dense soil. Innovative irrigation methods developed by ancient Egyptians increased the ...

Colby Cotton’s debut chronicles the aftermath of a childhood friend who dies by suicide and the community left in its wake. In dreamlike landscapes, Cotton estranges settings as varied as fields, rose gardens, snowy observatories, and a long line to enter the afterlife in poems that blur the boundary ...